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Is this 2016's most painful cycling video? (Warning: gruesome content)

Why you should never go mountain biking alone

Mountain biker Josh Lewis had a lucky escape when things went wrong on the trails and he ended up with 14 stitches in his, um… well, you know the meat and two veg? We’re talking about the meat. 

How’s that lucky? Well, it could have been much worse. At least Josh wasn’t heading to hospital with Little Josh packed away in a water bottle awaiting reattachment.

The crash actually looks fairly innocuous – the sort that every mountain biker has had and walked away from quite happily. The wound caused by landing on the handlebar, on the other hand, looks… harrowing. 

Don’t press ‘play’ if you’re just about to eat or go to sleep. You have been warned. 

Josh might be walking funny for a while - and indeed he was walking funny on the way to A&E - but every scar tells a story, and it'll be an interesting one.

Oh my gnarliness!

Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.

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Harmanhead | 7 years ago
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 Oh my gnarliness 

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Woldsman | 7 years ago
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You had me at 'Why you should never go mountain biking'.

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The _Kaner | 7 years ago
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As innocuous looking as Cedric Gracia's where he nearly dies

http://www.bikemag.com/videos/video-cedric-gracias-brush-with-death/#KyJ...

Gracia crashed on Reunion Island, broke his pelvis and severed his femoral artery...
 

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Mungecrundle | 7 years ago
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Wish mine was big enough for 14 stitches.

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Trickytree1984 | 7 years ago
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It's not that bad. Just watch it

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barongreenback | 7 years ago
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Bro!

Bro  2

Bro  17

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CygnusX1 | 7 years ago
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Glad that Youtube, Instagram etc are blocked in the office. Not what I want to see whilst enjoying my friday bacon and hash brown barm. 

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DaveE128 | 7 years ago
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I'm not gonna watch the vid, but the screenshot at the top looks like there could be an unplugged handlebar involved - was that the case? Never, ever ride a bike that has (or ride with someone who's bike has) unplugged handlebars!

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Yorkshire wallet | 7 years ago
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Should have had a helmet on his helmet.

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